Many filmmakers - from Orson Welles to Roman Polanski - have tackled "the Scottish play" but few have been as successful as Akira Kurosawa with Throne of Blood. On the surface, the story is the ...

However, much of the praise lavished on Throne of Blood came in recent decades. The volley of arrows that rain down on the samurai included real shafts shot by expert archers. Mifune’s frantic ...